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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTeen Climbing Camp 2010\nThis 5-day climbing camp is suitable for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who have an interest in rock climbing. The climbing days are designed for beginners and those who have some basic experience in a gym or outdoors. Participants will find themselves challenged physically and mentally.\nRock Dimensions camps are designed to be a positive and memorable experience by providing healthy communication between participants, individual goal setting, and challenges that lead to personal growth.\nDates\nMonday, June 29-Friday, July 3\nMonday, July 27-Friday, July 31\nLocations\nClimbing Tower at Footsloggers\nLinville Gorge and Table Rock area\nLocal climbing areas near Boone\nResponsibilities\nParticipants will meet Rock Dimensions guides at our location each morning and at the end of each day. Rock Dimensions will provide all climbing items, including a safety rope, a helmet and climbing shoes for each participant. Participants are responsible for bringing their own lunch, water, small backpack, appropriate clothing, and personal items like sun cream, etc.\nPre-camp planning\nParticipants will receive the following information in their registration packet Medical Form, Responsibility Agreement, Clothing/Equipment List, and Directions.\nCost\n$575/person for the 5-day camp\n$325/person for the first 3 days\nAnyone interested in participating in just the last two days of the camp should call to discuss pricing and necessary skills/experience.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the text, Rock Dimensions camps will _ .\n\n<options>:\nA probably impress participants deeply\nB provide a few competitions\nC help the participants set their life goals\nD check the records of personal growth\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTeen Climbing Camp 2010\nThis 5-day climbing camp is suitable for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who have an interest in rock climbing. The climbing days are designed for beginners and those who have some basic experience in a gym or outdoors. Participants will find themselves challenged physically and mentally.\nRock Dimensions camps are designed to be a positive and memorable experience by providing healthy communication between participants, individual goal setting, and challenges that lead to personal growth.\nDates\nMonday, June 29-Friday, July 3\nMonday, July 27-Friday, July 31\nLocations\nClimbing Tower at Footsloggers\nLinville Gorge and Table Rock area\nLocal climbing areas near Boone\nResponsibilities\nParticipants will meet Rock Dimensions guides at our location each morning and at the end of each day. Rock Dimensions will provide all climbing items, including a safety rope, a helmet and climbing shoes for each participant. Participants are responsible for bringing their own lunch, water, small backpack, appropriate clothing, and personal items like sun cream, etc.\nPre-camp planning\nParticipants will receive the following information in their registration packet Medical Form, Responsibility Agreement, Clothing/Equipment List, and Directions.\nCost\n$575/person for the 5-day camp\n$325/person for the first 3 days\nAnyone interested in participating in just the last two days of the camp should call to discuss pricing and necessary skills/experience.\n\n<question>:\nWhat of the following do participants need to bring with them?\n\n<options>:\nA A safety rope.\nB A helmet.\nC Climbing shoes.\nD Appropriate clothing.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTeen Climbing Camp 2010\nThis 5-day climbing camp is suitable for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who have an interest in rock climbing. The climbing days are designed for beginners and those who have some basic experience in a gym or outdoors. Participants will find themselves challenged physically and mentally.\nRock Dimensions camps are designed to be a positive and memorable experience by providing healthy communication between participants, individual goal setting, and challenges that lead to personal growth.\nDates\nMonday, June 29-Friday, July 3\nMonday, July 27-Friday, July 31\nLocations\nClimbing Tower at Footsloggers\nLinville Gorge and Table Rock area\nLocal climbing areas near Boone\nResponsibilities\nParticipants will meet Rock Dimensions guides at our location each morning and at the end of each day. Rock Dimensions will provide all climbing items, including a safety rope, a helmet and climbing shoes for each participant. Participants are responsible for bringing their own lunch, water, small backpack, appropriate clothing, and personal items like sun cream, etc.\nPre-camp planning\nParticipants will receive the following information in their registration packet Medical Form, Responsibility Agreement, Clothing/Equipment List, and Directions.\nCost\n$575/person for the 5-day camp\n$325/person for the first 3 days\nAnyone interested in participating in just the last two days of the camp should call to discuss pricing and necessary skills/experience.\n\n<question>:\nIf Paul wants to participate in the climbing camp from July 27 to July 29 and his brother from July 27 to July 31, it will cost them _ .\n\n<options>:\nA 575 dollars\nB 650 dollars\nC 900 dollars\nD 1,150 dollars\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTeen Climbing Camp 2010\nThis 5-day climbing camp is suitable for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who have an interest in rock climbing. The climbing days are designed for beginners and those who have some basic experience in a gym or outdoors. Participants will find themselves challenged physically and mentally.\nRock Dimensions camps are designed to be a positive and memorable experience by providing healthy communication between participants, individual goal setting, and challenges that lead to personal growth.\nDates\nMonday, June 29-Friday, July 3\nMonday, July 27-Friday, July 31\nLocations\nClimbing Tower at Footsloggers\nLinville Gorge and Table Rock area\nLocal climbing areas near Boone\nResponsibilities\nParticipants will meet Rock Dimensions guides at our location each morning and at the end of each day. Rock Dimensions will provide all climbing items, including a safety rope, a helmet and climbing shoes for each participant. Participants are responsible for bringing their own lunch, water, small backpack, appropriate clothing, and personal items like sun cream, etc.\nPre-camp planning\nParticipants will receive the following information in their registration packet Medical Form, Responsibility Agreement, Clothing/Equipment List, and Directions.\nCost\n$575/person for the 5-day camp\n$325/person for the first 3 days\nAnyone interested in participating in just the last two days of the camp should call to discuss pricing and necessary skills/experience.\n\n<question>:\nWhat can we infer from the text?\n\n<options>:\nA Some experience is required of the participants.\nB It'll be hard for teens to experience the climbing.\nC Parents are required to stay with their children.\nD Guides will talk about the prices with parents.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nSuppose you become a leader in an organization. It's very likely that you'll want to have volunteers to help with the organization's activities. To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their interest in the work.\nLet's begin with the question of why people volunteer. Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships. If volunteer positions do not meet these needs, people may not wish to participate. To select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.\nPeople also volunteer because they are required to do so. To increase levels of community service, some schools have launched compulsory volunteer programs. Unfortunately, these programs can shift people's wish of participation from an internal factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because it's important to me\") to an external factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because I'm required to do so\"). When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future. People must be sensitive to this possibility when they make volunteer activities a must.\nOnce people begin to volunteer, what leads them to remain in their positions over time? To answer this question, researchers have conducted follow-up studies in which they track volunteers over time. For instance, one study followed 238 volunteers in Florida over a year. One of the most important factors that influenced their satisfaction as volunteers was the amount of suffering they experienced in their volunteer positions. Although this result may not surprise you, it leads to important practical advice. The researchers note that attention should be given to \"training methods that would prepare volunteers for troublesome situations or provide them with strategies for coping with the problem they do experience\".\nAnother study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view \"volunteer\" as an important social role. It was assumed that those people for whom the role of volunteer was most part of their personal identity would also be most likely to continue volunteer work. Participants indicated the degree to which the social role mattered by responding to statements such as \"Volunteering in Hospital is an important part of who I am.\" Consistent with the researchers' expectations, they found a positive correlation between the strength of role identity and the length of time people continued to volunteer. These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: \"Once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.... Items like T-shirts that allow volunteers to be recognized publicly for their contributions can help strengthen role identity\".\n\n<question>:\nPeople volunteer mainly out of _ .\n\n<options>:\nA academic requirements\nB social expectations\nC financial rewards\nD internal needs\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nSuppose you become a leader in an organization. It's very likely that you'll want to have volunteers to help with the organization's activities. To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their interest in the work.\nLet's begin with the question of why people volunteer. Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships. If volunteer positions do not meet these needs, people may not wish to participate. To select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.\nPeople also volunteer because they are required to do so. To increase levels of community service, some schools have launched compulsory volunteer programs. Unfortunately, these programs can shift people's wish of participation from an internal factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because it's important to me\") to an external factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because I'm required to do so\"). When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future. People must be sensitive to this possibility when they make volunteer activities a must.\nOnce people begin to volunteer, what leads them to remain in their positions over time? To answer this question, researchers have conducted follow-up studies in which they track volunteers over time. For instance, one study followed 238 volunteers in Florida over a year. One of the most important factors that influenced their satisfaction as volunteers was the amount of suffering they experienced in their volunteer positions. Although this result may not surprise you, it leads to important practical advice. The researchers note that attention should be given to \"training methods that would prepare volunteers for troublesome situations or provide them with strategies for coping with the problem they do experience\".\nAnother study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view \"volunteer\" as an important social role. It was assumed that those people for whom the role of volunteer was most part of their personal identity would also be most likely to continue volunteer work. Participants indicated the degree to which the social role mattered by responding to statements such as \"Volunteering in Hospital is an important part of who I am.\" Consistent with the researchers' expectations, they found a positive correlation between the strength of role identity and the length of time people continued to volunteer. These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: \"Once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.... Items like T-shirts that allow volunteers to be recognized publicly for their contributions can help strengthen role identity\".\n\n<question>:\nWhat can we learn from the Florida study?\n\n<options>:\nA Follow-up studies should last for one year.\nB Volunteers should get mentally prepared.\nC Strategy training is a must in research.\nD Volunteers are provided with concrete advice.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nSuppose you become a leader in an organization. It's very likely that you'll want to have volunteers to help with the organization's activities. To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their interest in the work.\nLet's begin with the question of why people volunteer. Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships. If volunteer positions do not meet these needs, people may not wish to participate. To select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.\nPeople also volunteer because they are required to do so. To increase levels of community service, some schools have launched compulsory volunteer programs. Unfortunately, these programs can shift people's wish of participation from an internal factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because it's important to me\") to an external factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because I'm required to do so\"). When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future. People must be sensitive to this possibility when they make volunteer activities a must.\nOnce people begin to volunteer, what leads them to remain in their positions over time? To answer this question, researchers have conducted follow-up studies in which they track volunteers over time. For instance, one study followed 238 volunteers in Florida over a year. One of the most important factors that influenced their satisfaction as volunteers was the amount of suffering they experienced in their volunteer positions. Although this result may not surprise you, it leads to important practical advice. The researchers note that attention should be given to \"training methods that would prepare volunteers for troublesome situations or provide them with strategies for coping with the problem they do experience\".\nAnother study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view \"volunteer\" as an important social role. It was assumed that those people for whom the role of volunteer was most part of their personal identity would also be most likely to continue volunteer work. Participants indicated the degree to which the social role mattered by responding to statements such as \"Volunteering in Hospital is an important part of who I am.\" Consistent with the researchers' expectations, they found a positive correlation between the strength of role identity and the length of time people continued to volunteer. These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: \"Once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.... Items like T-shirts that allow volunteers to be recognized publicly for their contributions can help strengthen role identity\".\n\n<question>:\nWhat is most likely to motivate volunteers to continue their work?\n\n<options>:\nA Individual differences in role identity.\nB Publicly identifiable volunteer T-shirts.\nC Role identity as a volunteer.\nD Practical advice from researchers.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nSuppose you become a leader in an organization. It's very likely that you'll want to have volunteers to help with the organization's activities. To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their interest in the work.\nLet's begin with the question of why people volunteer. Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships. If volunteer positions do not meet these needs, people may not wish to participate. To select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.\nPeople also volunteer because they are required to do so. To increase levels of community service, some schools have launched compulsory volunteer programs. Unfortunately, these programs can shift people's wish of participation from an internal factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because it's important to me\") to an external factor (e.g., \"I volunteer because I'm required to do so\"). When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future. People must be sensitive to this possibility when they make volunteer activities a must.\nOnce people begin to volunteer, what leads them to remain in their positions over time? To answer this question, researchers have conducted follow-up studies in which they track volunteers over time. For instance, one study followed 238 volunteers in Florida over a year. One of the most important factors that influenced their satisfaction as volunteers was the amount of suffering they experienced in their volunteer positions. Although this result may not surprise you, it leads to important practical advice. The researchers note that attention should be given to \"training methods that would prepare volunteers for troublesome situations or provide them with strategies for coping with the problem they do experience\".\nAnother study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view \"volunteer\" as an important social role. It was assumed that those people for whom the role of volunteer was most part of their personal identity would also be most likely to continue volunteer work. Participants indicated the degree to which the social role mattered by responding to statements such as \"Volunteering in Hospital is an important part of who I am.\" Consistent with the researchers' expectations, they found a positive correlation between the strength of role identity and the length of time people continued to volunteer. These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: \"Once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.... Items like T-shirts that allow volunteers to be recognized publicly for their contributions can help strengthen role identity\".\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the best title of the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA How to Get People to Volunteer\nB How to Study Volunteer Behaviors\nC How to Keep Volunteers' Interest\nD How to Organize Volunteer Activities\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt's not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess usually waits for all the guests to arrive before serving the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spooked , and so might the host of hostess's spirit. If you will have to be late, call and tell them to start without you.\nIt's even worse to be early !the host or hostess will probably not be ready. If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few minutes, or just sit in your car until the right time.\nThough it's often important to arrive at a party on time, yet on the other hand, for open houses, he host or hostess invites guests to arrive and leave between certain times, so you can arrive at any time within the times he or she gives you.\nIt's nice to bring an empty stomach, but it's even nicer to bring a small present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might embarrass the host or hostess. Flowers, wine, or a box of candy will do fine. Never bring more as a present.\nIn an introduction, the order of a name is (1)the given name, (2)the family name. In other words, the given name comes first. It's important not only to learn and remember names, but to repeat them often in conversation. After the introduction, we usually call friends by their given names. Older people may want you to call them by their titles and family names, such as \"Mr.Jones\", \"Mr.Smith\",\"Ms.Johson\",or \"Dr.Brown\".\nA maiden name is a woman's family name at birth. In the United States and Canada, after a woman marries, she takes the family name of her husband in place of her maiden name. It is now becoming common, however, for women to keep their maiden names after they get married.\n\n<question>:\nIf someone is late for a dinner party, _\n\n<options>:\nA the guest will have to go hungry\nB the host and the hostess will be in low spirits\nC the host and the hostess will be very angry\nD he guests will be angry\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt's not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess usually waits for all the guests to arrive before serving the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spooked , and so might the host of hostess's spirit. If you will have to be late, call and tell them to start without you.\nIt's even worse to be early !the host or hostess will probably not be ready. If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few minutes, or just sit in your car until the right time.\nThough it's often important to arrive at a party on time, yet on the other hand, for open houses, he host or hostess invites guests to arrive and leave between certain times, so you can arrive at any time within the times he or she gives you.\nIt's nice to bring an empty stomach, but it's even nicer to bring a small present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might embarrass the host or hostess. Flowers, wine, or a box of candy will do fine. Never bring more as a present.\nIn an introduction, the order of a name is (1)the given name, (2)the family name. In other words, the given name comes first. It's important not only to learn and remember names, but to repeat them often in conversation. After the introduction, we usually call friends by their given names. Older people may want you to call them by their titles and family names, such as \"Mr.Jones\", \"Mr.Smith\",\"Ms.Johson\",or \"Dr.Brown\".\nA maiden name is a woman's family name at birth. In the United States and Canada, after a woman marries, she takes the family name of her husband in place of her maiden name. It is now becoming common, however, for women to keep their maiden names after they get married.\n\n<question>:\nIf you find you will have to be late for a finer party, you should _\n\n<options>:\nA send someone to tell the host or hostess not to wait for you\nB call and tell the host or the hostess not to wait for you\nC call and tell the host or the hostess to wait for you\nD send someone to tell the host or hostess to wait for you\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt's not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess usually waits for all the guests to arrive before serving the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spooked , and so might the host of hostess's spirit. If you will have to be late, call and tell them to start without you.\nIt's even worse to be early !the host or hostess will probably not be ready. If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few minutes, or just sit in your car until the right time.\nThough it's often important to arrive at a party on time, yet on the other hand, for open houses, he host or hostess invites guests to arrive and leave between certain times, so you can arrive at any time within the times he or she gives you.\nIt's nice to bring an empty stomach, but it's even nicer to bring a small present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might embarrass the host or hostess. Flowers, wine, or a box of candy will do fine. Never bring more as a present.\nIn an introduction, the order of a name is (1)the given name, (2)the family name. In other words, the given name comes first. It's important not only to learn and remember names, but to repeat them often in conversation. After the introduction, we usually call friends by their given names. Older people may want you to call them by their titles and family names, such as \"Mr.Jones\", \"Mr.Smith\",\"Ms.Johson\",or \"Dr.Brown\".\nA maiden name is a woman's family name at birth. In the United States and Canada, after a woman marries, she takes the family name of her husband in place of her maiden name. It is now becoming common, however, for women to keep their maiden names after they get married.\n\n<question>:\nIt can be guessed from the text that an open house is _\n\n<options>:\nA a house which is open day and night\nB a party which is open to anybody\nC a party at which guests can come and go between certain times\nD a party which is open at night\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt's not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess usually waits for all the guests to arrive before serving the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spooked , and so might the host of hostess's spirit. If you will have to be late, call and tell them to start without you.\nIt's even worse to be early !the host or hostess will probably not be ready. If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few minutes, or just sit in your car until the right time.\nThough it's often important to arrive at a party on time, yet on the other hand, for open houses, he host or hostess invites guests to arrive and leave between certain times, so you can arrive at any time within the times he or she gives you.\nIt's nice to bring an empty stomach, but it's even nicer to bring a small present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might embarrass the host or hostess. Flowers, wine, or a box of candy will do fine. Never bring more as a present.\nIn an introduction, the order of a name is (1)the given name, (2)the family name. In other words, the given name comes first. It's important not only to learn and remember names, but to repeat them often in conversation. After the introduction, we usually call friends by their given names. Older people may want you to call them by their titles and family names, such as \"Mr.Jones\", \"Mr.Smith\",\"Ms.Johson\",or \"Dr.Brown\".\nA maiden name is a woman's family name at birth. In the United States and Canada, after a woman marries, she takes the family name of her husband in place of her maiden name. It is now becoming common, however, for women to keep their maiden names after they get married.\n\n<question>:\nIt's nice to bring a _ present.\n\n<options>:\nA cheap\nB small\nC good\nD big\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt's not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess usually waits for all the guests to arrive before serving the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spooked , and so might the host of hostess's spirit. If you will have to be late, call and tell them to start without you.\nIt's even worse to be early !the host or hostess will probably not be ready. If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few minutes, or just sit in your car until the right time.\nThough it's often important to arrive at a party on time, yet on the other hand, for open houses, he host or hostess invites guests to arrive and leave between certain times, so you can arrive at any time within the times he or she gives you.\nIt's nice to bring an empty stomach, but it's even nicer to bring a small present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might embarrass the host or hostess. Flowers, wine, or a box of candy will do fine. Never bring more as a present.\nIn an introduction, the order of a name is (1)the given name, (2)the family name. In other words, the given name comes first. It's important not only to learn and remember names, but to repeat them often in conversation. After the introduction, we usually call friends by their given names. Older people may want you to call them by their titles and family names, such as \"Mr.Jones\", \"Mr.Smith\",\"Ms.Johson\",or \"Dr.Brown\".\nA maiden name is a woman's family name at birth. In the United States and Canada, after a woman marries, she takes the family name of her husband in place of her maiden name. It is now becoming common, however, for women to keep their maiden names after they get married.\n\n<question>:\nSome older people usually want to be called by _\n\n<options>:\nA their given names\nB their titles and their family names\nC their family names\nD surnames\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nRobert A.Heinlein was considered one of American's \"Big Three\"western science fiction authors,along with Issac Asimov and Arthur C.Clarke.He was born in a family of seven children in 1907,attended public school in Kansas City,and graduated from Central High School in 1924.In 1929 he graduated from fhe U.S.Naval Academy at Annapolis,and served as all officer in the Navy.This experience had a strong influence on his character and writing.At the age of thirty-two,he turned his hand to writing science fiction.\n Heinlein's first published stories appeared in the action-adventure magazine Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.Under his influence writers started to examine how technology might affect the everyday lives of ordinary people,and society in general.\n Heinleiu's early works emphasized adventure,and were aimed at young readers.In 1959 he received the Boy's Clubs of American Book Award.In these novels Heintein avoided open didacticism ,although his main characters learned lessons in courage and tolerance.Beginning in the late 1950s,Heinlein started to write specially for adults,and to deal with such topics as cloning,religion,and free love.\n Heinlein produced fifty novels and collections of short stories during his career.One of his best-known works is the novel Stranger in a Strange Land,published inl961.A few years later it was adopted by the\"Peace and Love\"generation,and became the most successful science-fiction novel ever published.Glory Road(1963),written in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars stories,is another of his most popular works. \n Within the framework of his science fiction stories,Heinlein repeatedly addressed such social themes as the importance of self-confidence and the duties each person owes to the society.In his fiction,Heinlein coined words that have become part of the English language, including\"grok\"and\"waldo\".He also described a modern version of a \"waterbed\"in his novel The Door Into Summer and several of his works have been adapted for film and television.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is true about Heinlein's works?\n\n<options>:\nA They were Never aimed at adults.\nB They forced readers to accept moral ideas.\nC They were greatly influenced by other writers.\nD Early works were popular among young readers.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nRobert A.Heinlein was considered one of American's \"Big Three\"western science fiction authors,along with Issac Asimov and Arthur C.Clarke.He was born in a family of seven children in 1907,attended public school in Kansas City,and graduated from Central High School in 1924.In 1929 he graduated from fhe U.S.Naval Academy at Annapolis,and served as all officer in the Navy.This experience had a strong influence on his character and writing.At the age of thirty-two,he turned his hand to writing science fiction.\n Heinlein's first published stories appeared in the action-adventure magazine Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.Under his influence writers started to examine how technology might affect the everyday lives of ordinary people,and society in general.\n Heinleiu's early works emphasized adventure,and were aimed at young readers.In 1959 he received the Boy's Clubs of American Book Award.In these novels Heintein avoided open didacticism ,although his main characters learned lessons in courage and tolerance.Beginning in the late 1950s,Heinlein started to write specially for adults,and to deal with such topics as cloning,religion,and free love.\n Heinlein produced fifty novels and collections of short stories during his career.One of his best-known works is the novel Stranger in a Strange Land,published inl961.A few years later it was adopted by the\"Peace and Love\"generation,and became the most successful science-fiction novel ever published.Glory Road(1963),written in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars stories,is another of his most popular works. \n Within the framework of his science fiction stories,Heinlein repeatedly addressed such social themes as the importance of self-confidence and the duties each person owes to the society.In his fiction,Heinlein coined words that have become part of the English language, including\"grok\"and\"waldo\".He also described a modern version of a \"waterbed\"in his novel The Door Into Summer and several of his works have been adapted for film and television.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following was adopted by the\"Peace and Love\"generation?\n\n<options>:\nA Astounding Science Fiction\nB Glory Road.\nC Stranger in a Strange Land\nD The Door Into Summer\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAre you a volcano lover? Here is a list of some of the world's most beautiful volcanoes\nthat our travel agency can offer you to visit. Don't miss them!\nMount Mayon, the Philippines\nLocated about 450 km southeast of Manila on the island of Luzon, Mount Mayon is the\nmost active volcano in the Philippines; a September 2014 eruption forced thousands to flee the\narea. Those who hike the volcano are rewarded with views of the towns in the Albay province\nand the Pacific Ocean. But even those who prefer the view from a distance have a historical\ngood point at the Cagsawa Ruins, once an 18th Century Franciscan church that was destroyed\nby an 1814 eruption.\nKilauea and Marina Kea, Hawaii\nHawaii's volcanoes are known for their active eruptions and extraordinary scenes. Mauna Kea is around one million years old, while Kilauea is the youngest volcano in Hawaii and has\nbeen erupting continuously since 1983. The lava falls straight into the sea, creating fantastic\nforms of black rocks and smoke clouds.\nMount Kelimutu, Indonesia\nKelimutu's three mysterious crater lakes attract both scientists and tourists to the island\nof Flores in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province. One is emerald green , another\ndark red, and the third pitch black. Scientists say the lakes take on such colors because the\nvolcanic gases met the lakes' minerals centuries ago.\n\n<question>:\nPeople who hike Mount Mayon can enjoy the following EXCEPT _ .\n\n<options>:\nA views of the towns in the Albay province\nB views of the Pacific Ocean\nC views of the Cagsawa Ruins\nD views of Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAre you a volcano lover? Here is a list of some of the world's most beautiful volcanoes\nthat our travel agency can offer you to visit. Don't miss them!\nMount Mayon, the Philippines\nLocated about 450 km southeast of Manila on the island of Luzon, Mount Mayon is the\nmost active volcano in the Philippines; a September 2014 eruption forced thousands to flee the\narea. Those who hike the volcano are rewarded with views of the towns in the Albay province\nand the Pacific Ocean. But even those who prefer the view from a distance have a historical\ngood point at the Cagsawa Ruins, once an 18th Century Franciscan church that was destroyed\nby an 1814 eruption.\nKilauea and Marina Kea, Hawaii\nHawaii's volcanoes are known for their active eruptions and extraordinary scenes. Mauna Kea is around one million years old, while Kilauea is the youngest volcano in Hawaii and has\nbeen erupting continuously since 1983. The lava falls straight into the sea, creating fantastic\nforms of black rocks and smoke clouds.\nMount Kelimutu, Indonesia\nKelimutu's three mysterious crater lakes attract both scientists and tourists to the island\nof Flores in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province. One is emerald green , another\ndark red, and the third pitch black. Scientists say the lakes take on such colors because the\nvolcanic gases met the lakes' minerals centuries ago.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the text, Kilauea _ .\n\n<options>:\nA is an active volcano\nB stopped erupting in 1983\nC is the youngest volcano in the world\nD forced thousands to flee in 2014\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAre you a volcano lover? Here is a list of some of the world's most beautiful volcanoes\nthat our travel agency can offer you to visit. Don't miss them!\nMount Mayon, the Philippines\nLocated about 450 km southeast of Manila on the island of Luzon, Mount Mayon is the\nmost active volcano in the Philippines; a September 2014 eruption forced thousands to flee the\narea. Those who hike the volcano are rewarded with views of the towns in the Albay province\nand the Pacific Ocean. But even those who prefer the view from a distance have a historical\ngood point at the Cagsawa Ruins, once an 18th Century Franciscan church that was destroyed\nby an 1814 eruption.\nKilauea and Marina Kea, Hawaii\nHawaii's volcanoes are known for their active eruptions and extraordinary scenes. Mauna Kea is around one million years old, while Kilauea is the youngest volcano in Hawaii and has\nbeen erupting continuously since 1983. The lava falls straight into the sea, creating fantastic\nforms of black rocks and smoke clouds.\nMount Kelimutu, Indonesia\nKelimutu's three mysterious crater lakes attract both scientists and tourists to the island\nof Flores in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province. One is emerald green , another\ndark red, and the third pitch black. Scientists say the lakes take on such colors because the\nvolcanic gases met the lakes' minerals centuries ago.\n\n<question>:\nThe colors of Kelimutu's three mysterious crater lakes are due to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA water pollution\nB different environments\nC chemical reaction\nD different temperatures\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nFebruary 1 , 2012 marked the first ever Digital Learning Day, a day devoted to exploring, promoting and celebrating revolutionary teaching and instruction practices that involve students in the digital world around them.This daylong celebration was organized in recognition of the fast-changing landscape of the social and work environment students find themselves a part of.But as a whole, education has dropped behind the digital revolution.\nDigital Learning Day sought to bring awareness to the great influence of digital learning on the classroom and the amazing potential digital technologies have to involve students in new ways and motivate them to create and cooperate.\nThe day started with a National Town Hall meeting, accessed online, of course.Schools around the country used Skype to join the conversation and interact with the speakers.Participants, including 39 states, 15,000 teachers and more than 2 million students, were all involved in some form of digital learning activities and revolution.The activities across the nation showed some of the best in digital education.\n Many schools celebrated by using iPads.Miller Junior High School in Aberdeen, Wash.distributed an iPad to every 7th and 8th grade student.Other schools used the notebooks for science projects, health projects and photography.\nKindergarteners in Topeka, Kansas used Skype to communicate with other classrooms and learn about how other students learn.\nThe daylong celebration also _ in the digital world with bloggers commenting on digital education trends, teachers using Twitter and social media to share information and online articles.\nWhat' s clear from the events of the day is that education needs to catch up with the digital revolution.Students shouldn ' t first hear about the \" cloud\" or interact with a wiki after graduation.Schools should include digital and technology revolutions in daily instruction.Plus, digital technologies can grow and improve the cooperative, creative and critical thinking skills students need to succeed later in life.\nDigital technology is here to stay.If schools truly want to prepare students for the 21st Century, they will need to welcome the ideas from the first ever Digital Teaming Day and get ready to show their best.\n\n<question>:\nWhy does the author write the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA To advocate digital education.\nB To inform people of Digital Learning Day.\nC To present the achievement of digital revolution.\nD To introduce the development of digital technology.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nFebruary 1 , 2012 marked the first ever Digital Learning Day, a day devoted to exploring, promoting and celebrating revolutionary teaching and instruction practices that involve students in the digital world around them.This daylong celebration was organized in recognition of the fast-changing landscape of the social and work environment students find themselves a part of.But as a whole, education has dropped behind the digital revolution.\nDigital Learning Day sought to bring awareness to the great influence of digital learning on the classroom and the amazing potential digital technologies have to involve students in new ways and motivate them to create and cooperate.\nThe day started with a National Town Hall meeting, accessed online, of course.Schools around the country used Skype to join the conversation and interact with the speakers.Participants, including 39 states, 15,000 teachers and more than 2 million students, were all involved in some form of digital learning activities and revolution.The activities across the nation showed some of the best in digital education.\n Many schools celebrated by using iPads.Miller Junior High School in Aberdeen, Wash.distributed an iPad to every 7th and 8th grade student.Other schools used the notebooks for science projects, health projects and photography.\nKindergarteners in Topeka, Kansas used Skype to communicate with other classrooms and learn about how other students learn.\nThe daylong celebration also _ in the digital world with bloggers commenting on digital education trends, teachers using Twitter and social media to share information and online articles.\nWhat' s clear from the events of the day is that education needs to catch up with the digital revolution.Students shouldn ' t first hear about the \" cloud\" or interact with a wiki after graduation.Schools should include digital and technology revolutions in daily instruction.Plus, digital technologies can grow and improve the cooperative, creative and critical thinking skills students need to succeed later in life.\nDigital technology is here to stay.If schools truly want to prepare students for the 21st Century, they will need to welcome the ideas from the first ever Digital Teaming Day and get ready to show their best.\n\n<question>:\nWe can learn from the passage that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA 15,000 teachers gathered at the Town Hall for the celebration\nB students should learn to use digital technology after graduation\nC the success of digital education depends on students' creativity\nD applying digital technology to teaching is the key to digital education\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMusa teaches English at Chunmiao Primary School in Wuhan. He had never heard of China's idol of selflessness before he arrived in the country, but this unusual young man from Nigeria is carrying on the good work of China's hero soldier.\nMusa's week begins with a crowded two-hour bus ride for a flag-raising ceremony at Chunmiao Primary School with old classrooms for the children of migrant workers on the outside parts of Wuhan.An hour later, he steps in front of a room full of expectant students, some of whom recently organized a dance exhibition for their foreign teacher.\nThe dance showed the spirit of Lei Feng (1940-1962), a soldier who was idolized across China for his selflessness. It was especially meaningful to Musa because the students call him \"foreign Lei Feng\".\n\"I know Lei Feng, he is a good man. Everyone should learn from Lei Feng,\" he says.\nBorn to a family of diplomats in 1985, he is the second of nine children and the eldest son. Musa was expected to become a diplomat like his father, who worked in Canada from 2007.In 2008, Musa was picked by Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study in China for a master's degree in sociology . With the hope of joining the foreign service, he then went on to study for a doctor's degree in international relations at Central China Normal University.\n\n<question>:\nThe students Musa teaches at Chunmiao Primary School are _ .\n\n<options>:\nA native children in Wuhan\nB children of workers from outside Wuhan\nC children from different foreign countries\nD children from poor families\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMusa teaches English at Chunmiao Primary School in Wuhan. He had never heard of China's idol of selflessness before he arrived in the country, but this unusual young man from Nigeria is carrying on the good work of China's hero soldier.\nMusa's week begins with a crowded two-hour bus ride for a flag-raising ceremony at Chunmiao Primary School with old classrooms for the children of migrant workers on the outside parts of Wuhan.An hour later, he steps in front of a room full of expectant students, some of whom recently organized a dance exhibition for their foreign teacher.\nThe dance showed the spirit of Lei Feng (1940-1962), a soldier who was idolized across China for his selflessness. It was especially meaningful to Musa because the students call him \"foreign Lei Feng\".\n\"I know Lei Feng, he is a good man. Everyone should learn from Lei Feng,\" he says.\nBorn to a family of diplomats in 1985, he is the second of nine children and the eldest son. Musa was expected to become a diplomat like his father, who worked in Canada from 2007.In 2008, Musa was picked by Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study in China for a master's degree in sociology . With the hope of joining the foreign service, he then went on to study for a doctor's degree in international relations at Central China Normal University.\n\n<question>:\nSome students organized a dance exhibition to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA say good bye to their foreign teacher\nB show their wish to learn English\nC remember China's hero soldier\nD honor their foreign teacher\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAfter we meet people it is up to us to make them our friends. Let us stop a moment and consider what really makes a friend. The major qualities like faithfulness, devotion, friendly company, flash through our minds. But it is the large number of very small particular qualities that make up one's whole character, such as cheerfulness, friendliness, and punctuality . After all, \" to make a friend, be a friend\" is not such a big and difficult order. There are particular favorable qualities, which attract others to us, and some elements which do have an effect on people in fundamental psychology or not.\nIf you are in the presence of a shy person, talking and asking casual questions may _ . Think of what would be most acceptable to the other person, for you to talk, or to listen. Either way the goal is to make yourself pleasant.\nAlways remember to listen, but listen intelligently. To have anyone \" hang on our words\" is the most unnoticeably clever way in the world to please somebody. For a few extremely happy seconds we are the center of attraction, but when it is our turn to be audience, let us remember how we felt as the actor, and let's be genuinely interested in what the other fellow is saying.\nOther people will like us, if we like them. If you want friends, keep your mind and heart open to friendship. Be alive to the other person's world.\n\n<question>:\nThis passage is mainly about _ .\n\n<options>:\nA the ways of talking to a shy person\nB some favorable qualities to be a psychologist\nC how to make yourself attractive to your listeners\nD how to make a friend and be a friend\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAfter we meet people it is up to us to make them our friends. Let us stop a moment and consider what really makes a friend. The major qualities like faithfulness, devotion, friendly company, flash through our minds. But it is the large number of very small particular qualities that make up one's whole character, such as cheerfulness, friendliness, and punctuality . After all, \" to make a friend, be a friend\" is not such a big and difficult order. There are particular favorable qualities, which attract others to us, and some elements which do have an effect on people in fundamental psychology or not.\nIf you are in the presence of a shy person, talking and asking casual questions may _ . Think of what would be most acceptable to the other person, for you to talk, or to listen. Either way the goal is to make yourself pleasant.\nAlways remember to listen, but listen intelligently. To have anyone \" hang on our words\" is the most unnoticeably clever way in the world to please somebody. For a few extremely happy seconds we are the center of attraction, but when it is our turn to be audience, let us remember how we felt as the actor, and let's be genuinely interested in what the other fellow is saying.\nOther people will like us, if we like them. If you want friends, keep your mind and heart open to friendship. Be alive to the other person's world.\n\n<question>:\nThe words \" bring him out of his shell\" in this passage most probably mean _ .\n\n<options>:\nA make him become active\nB make him feel more nervous\nC help him understand the question better\nD help him listen intelligently\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe year is 2094. It has been announced that a comet is heading towards the Earth . Most of it will miss our planet, but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the Earth.\nOn 17 July , a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth's atmosphere with a massive explosion . About half of the piece is destroyed, but the remaining part hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound. The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed. Huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole. The wall of water, a kilometer high, rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned.\nBefore the waves reach South America, the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina. Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains. The shock waves move north into California and all around the Pacific Ocean. The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes. Millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead, but the north won't escape for long. Because of the explosions, the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, temperatures around the world fall to almost zero .Crops are ruined. The sun won't be seen again for many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later, no more than 10 million people remain alive.\nCould it really happen? In fact, it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared. Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldn't live through the cold climate that followed and they died out. Will we meet the same and?\n\n<question>:\nWhat is mainly described in the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA A historic discovery.\nB An event of imagination\nC A research on space.\nD A scientific adventure.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe year is 2094. It has been announced that a comet is heading towards the Earth . Most of it will miss our planet, but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the Earth.\nOn 17 July , a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth's atmosphere with a massive explosion . About half of the piece is destroyed, but the remaining part hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound. The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed. Huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole. The wall of water, a kilometer high, rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned.\nBefore the waves reach South America, the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina. Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains. The shock waves move north into California and all around the Pacific Ocean. The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes. Millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead, but the north won't escape for long. Because of the explosions, the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, temperatures around the world fall to almost zero .Crops are ruined. The sun won't be seen again for many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later, no more than 10 million people remain alive.\nCould it really happen? In fact, it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared. Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldn't live through the cold climate that followed and they died out. Will we meet the same and?\n\n<question>:\nWhy can't the northern half of the earth escape for long?\n\n<options>:\nA Because the land is covered with water\nB Because the light and heat from the sun can not reach the earth.\nC Because people there can not live at the temperature of zero.\nD Because wars break out among countries.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBeijing City International School\nPosition: IT manager\nMajor Duties and Responsibilities:\n Prepares and carries out the annual budget of the department.\n Builds and develops the whole school IT system\n Provides excellent IT services with IT team for teaching and business. Requirements/Qualifications:\n Bachelor or above, majoring in Information Technology or Finance.\n Good command of both Chinese and English\n Minimum 5 years working experience, 3 years in a managerial level\n Able to work in a collaborative style\nKAI CABLE INC.\nPosition: Sales Internship\nMajor Duties and Responsibilities:\n Builds and develops good relationship with new customers\n Maintains strong relationship with the existing customers\n Explores potential customers further\n Conducts market ~ competitors analysis to improve customer satisfaction.\nRequirements/Qualifications:\n Graduates with Bachelor degree.\n Major in Finance, Economics, International Trade.\n Fluent English (in both written ~ spoken) and Mandarin .\n Familiar with MS office, especially Excel and PowerPoint and Internet application\n Willingness to accept challenges and work under pressure.\n Strong sense of responsibility.\n Preoare for business trios.\n\n<question>:\nBoth of the recruiting ads include the following information EXCEPT _\n\n<options>:\nA positions available\nB working duties\nC a good command of computer skills\nD the degrees needed of the applicants\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBeijing City International School\nPosition: IT manager\nMajor Duties and Responsibilities:\n Prepares and carries out the annual budget of the department.\n Builds and develops the whole school IT system\n Provides excellent IT services with IT team for teaching and business. Requirements/Qualifications:\n Bachelor or above, majoring in Information Technology or Finance.\n Good command of both Chinese and English\n Minimum 5 years working experience, 3 years in a managerial level\n Able to work in a collaborative style\nKAI CABLE INC.\nPosition: Sales Internship\nMajor Duties and Responsibilities:\n Builds and develops good relationship with new customers\n Maintains strong relationship with the existing customers\n Explores potential customers further\n Conducts market ~ competitors analysis to improve customer satisfaction.\nRequirements/Qualifications:\n Graduates with Bachelor degree.\n Major in Finance, Economics, International Trade.\n Fluent English (in both written ~ spoken) and Mandarin .\n Familiar with MS office, especially Excel and PowerPoint and Internet application\n Willingness to accept challenges and work under pressure.\n Strong sense of responsibility.\n Preoare for business trios.\n\n<question>:\nBen,majoring in Finance,is a fresh graduate with a good knowledge of English. Which position can he apply for?\n\n<options>:\nA IT manager.\nB Neither of the positions.\nC Both of the positions.\nD Sales Internship.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBeijing City International School\nPosition: IT manager\nMajor Duties and Responsibilities:\n Prepares and carries out the annual budget of the department.\n Builds and develops the whole school IT system\n Provides excellent IT services with IT team for teaching and business. Requirements/Qualifications:\n Bachelor or above, majoring in Information Technology or Finance.\n Good command of both Chinese and English\n Minimum 5 years working experience, 3 years in a managerial level\n Able to work in a collaborative style\nKAI CABLE INC.\nPosition: Sales Internship\nMajor Duties and Responsibilities:\n Builds and develops good relationship with new customers\n Maintains strong relationship with the existing customers\n Explores potential customers further\n Conducts market ~ competitors analysis to improve customer satisfaction.\nRequirements/Qualifications:\n Graduates with Bachelor degree.\n Major in Finance, Economics, International Trade.\n Fluent English (in both written ~ spoken) and Mandarin .\n Familiar with MS office, especially Excel and PowerPoint and Internet application\n Willingness to accept challenges and work under pressure.\n Strong sense of responsibility.\n Preoare for business trios.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the 1st ad, which of the following is NOT included in the daily duties of an IT manager?\n\n<options>:\nA Making a plan of the annual expense of the department beforehand.\nB Analyzing the needs of the market and developing its IT systems.\nC Offering assistance if people have any computer problems.\nD Managing and controlling the money of the department.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPlease excuse me if I'm a little sad today. Mark is leaving, and I'm feeling kind of sad.\nYou probably don't know Mark, but you might be lucky enough to know someone just like him. He's been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years combining great professional skills with a sweet nature. He just wants to do his job, and to do it superbly well. And now he's moving on to an exciting new professional opportunity. It sounds like it could be the chance of a lifetime, and we're genuinely, sincerely pleased for him. But that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye to a dear friend and trusted colleague.\nLife has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start to get comfortable with a person, a place or a situation. A terrific neighbor moves away. Someone in the family graduates. A child finds new love and loyalties through marriage. The family's principle bread-winner is laid off.\nBut how do we do that? A friend of mine who works for the government once told me that the answer to life's problems can be summed up in four words: \"Go with the flow.\"\n\"It's like surfing,\" Chris explained. \"You can't organize the ocean. Waves just happen. You ride them where they take you, then you paddle back out there and catch the next one. Sure, you're always hoping for the perfect wave where you can get. But mostly you just take them the way they come.\nI'm not exactly sure, but I think Chris was saying that life is a series of events--both good and bad. There will always be life-influencing factors over which you have no control. That doesn't mean you don't keep trying to make all your dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren't exactly in your plan, you work around them--and then you move on. Of course, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take than others. A rained-out picnic, for example, is easier to cope with than the sudden death of a loved one. But the principle is the same.\nWe're going to miss Mark, just like you'll miss that graduate, that neighbor or that newlywed. But rather than drown ourselves in the sadness of our parting, we'll focus on our hopes for a brighter future--for him, and for us. And then we'll go out and do everything we can to make that future happen.\n\n<question>:\nThe leaving of Mike makes the writer feel _ .\n\n<options>:\nA really unpleasant\nB very angry\nC both happy and sad\nD a little disappointed\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPlease excuse me if I'm a little sad today. Mark is leaving, and I'm feeling kind of sad.\nYou probably don't know Mark, but you might be lucky enough to know someone just like him. He's been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years combining great professional skills with a sweet nature. He just wants to do his job, and to do it superbly well. And now he's moving on to an exciting new professional opportunity. It sounds like it could be the chance of a lifetime, and we're genuinely, sincerely pleased for him. But that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye to a dear friend and trusted colleague.\nLife has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start to get comfortable with a person, a place or a situation. A terrific neighbor moves away. Someone in the family graduates. A child finds new love and loyalties through marriage. The family's principle bread-winner is laid off.\nBut how do we do that? A friend of mine who works for the government once told me that the answer to life's problems can be summed up in four words: \"Go with the flow.\"\n\"It's like surfing,\" Chris explained. \"You can't organize the ocean. Waves just happen. You ride them where they take you, then you paddle back out there and catch the next one. Sure, you're always hoping for the perfect wave where you can get. But mostly you just take them the way they come.\nI'm not exactly sure, but I think Chris was saying that life is a series of events--both good and bad. There will always be life-influencing factors over which you have no control. That doesn't mean you don't keep trying to make all your dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren't exactly in your plan, you work around them--and then you move on. Of course, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take than others. A rained-out picnic, for example, is easier to cope with than the sudden death of a loved one. But the principle is the same.\nWe're going to miss Mark, just like you'll miss that graduate, that neighbor or that newlywed. But rather than drown ourselves in the sadness of our parting, we'll focus on our hopes for a brighter future--for him, and for us. And then we'll go out and do everything we can to make that future happen.\n\n<question>:\nIn the writer's opinion, one should _ when unexpected things come up.\n\n<options>:\nA accept them and hope for a better future\nB do as planned\nC overcome difficulties and let them in control\nD never give up until he succeeds\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nStill seeking a destination for your weekend break? There are some places which are probably a mere walk away from your college.\nKing's Art Centre\nA day at the Centre could mean a visit to an exhibition of the work of one of the most interesting contemporary artists on show anywhere. This weekend tees the opening of an exhibition of four local artists.\nYou could attend a class teaching you how to 'learn from the masters' or get more creative with paint ---- free of charge.\nThe Centre also runs two life drawing classes for which there is a small fee.\nThe Botanic Garden\nThe Garden has over 8,000 plant species; it holds the research and teaching collection of living plants for Cambridge University.\nThe multi-branchedTorch Aloe here is impressive. The African plant produces red flowers above blue-green leaves, and is not one to miss.\nGet to the display house to seeDionaea muscipula, a plant more commonly known as the Venus Flytrap that feeds on insects and other small animals.\nThe Garden is also a place for wildlife-enthusiasts. Look for grass snakes in the lake. A snake called 'Hissing Sid' is regularly seen lying in the heat of the warm sun.\nByron's Pool\nMany stories surround Lord Byron's time as a student of Cambridge University, Arriving in 1805, he wrote a letter complaining that it was a place of \"mess and drunkenness\". However, it seems as though Byron did manage to pass the time pleasantly enough. I'm not just talking about the pet bear he kept in his roans. He spent a great deal of time walking in the village.\nIt is also said that on occasion Byron swam naked by moonlight in the lake, which is now known as Byron's Pool. A couple of miles past Grantchester in the south Cambridgeshire countryside, the pool is surrounded by beautiful circular paths around the fields. The cries of invisible birds make the trip a lovely experience and on the way home you can drop into the village for afternoon tea. If you don't trust me, then perhaps you'll take it from Virginia Woolf- ----over a century after Byron, she reportedly took a trip to swim in the same pool.\n\n<question>:\nAs mentioned in the passage, there is a small charge for _ .\n\n<options>:\nA attending the masters' class\nB working with local artists\nC learning life drawing\nD seeing an exhibition\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nShould universities focus on training workers for the next decade or curing diseases for the next century? A group of governors, educators, and CEOs weighed in on the best way universities can prepare for the future. They debated how the U.S. can take the responsibility for research while still preparing students for real jobs.\nOklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said that the first thing she thinks about as governor is educating Oklahoma students and strengthening the workforce. So she's carrying out a program called \"America Works: Education and Training for Tomorrow's Jobs\" that aims to \"reorganize our education system with the current needs of our employers\".\nThe state governor added that this new educational approach doesn't just benefit students and companies, but also improves the state economy. \"We've been able to attract new companies to our state because of what we're doing with our universities, because our students are a pipeline for the workforce,\" she said. \"General Electric Company (one of the world's biggest companies) is coming to Oklahoma.\"\nOther group members were more focused on the long-term goals of a research university. Amy Gutmann pointed out that \"basic research is the foundation for everything else that happens at a university. And if we don't do it, nobody else will.\"\n\"And if nobody does that research, we'll pay the price in health care bills,\" argued Vagelos, who is a former CEO of Merck & Co., Inc, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. \"The jobs of universities are basic research, which is what is needed for attacks on disease,\" he said. \"There has been a reduction in coronary heart disease by 60% in the last forty years because of this research, and that reduces health care costs.\"\nJames Hunt, former North Carolina governor, argued for a happy medium. Effective communication, he said, would help the public see that the research conducted at universities actually serves a practical purpose.\nEli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundations, agreed. \"We have to show the public what research has achieved,\" he said. \"We have to show how it actually goes from basic research to something they can understand.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhy does Oklahoma appeal to General Electric Company?\n\n<options>:\nA University graduates in the state are well trained.\nB There's much support from the local government.\nC Many students in the state hope to be workers.\nD The state economy has been growing rapidly.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nShould universities focus on training workers for the next decade or curing diseases for the next century? A group of governors, educators, and CEOs weighed in on the best way universities can prepare for the future. They debated how the U.S. can take the responsibility for research while still preparing students for real jobs.\nOklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said that the first thing she thinks about as governor is educating Oklahoma students and strengthening the workforce. So she's carrying out a program called \"America Works: Education and Training for Tomorrow's Jobs\" that aims to \"reorganize our education system with the current needs of our employers\".\nThe state governor added that this new educational approach doesn't just benefit students and companies, but also improves the state economy. \"We've been able to attract new companies to our state because of what we're doing with our universities, because our students are a pipeline for the workforce,\" she said. \"General Electric Company (one of the world's biggest companies) is coming to Oklahoma.\"\nOther group members were more focused on the long-term goals of a research university. Amy Gutmann pointed out that \"basic research is the foundation for everything else that happens at a university. And if we don't do it, nobody else will.\"\n\"And if nobody does that research, we'll pay the price in health care bills,\" argued Vagelos, who is a former CEO of Merck & Co., Inc, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. \"The jobs of universities are basic research, which is what is needed for attacks on disease,\" he said. \"There has been a reduction in coronary heart disease by 60% in the last forty years because of this research, and that reduces health care costs.\"\nJames Hunt, former North Carolina governor, argued for a happy medium. Effective communication, he said, would help the public see that the research conducted at universities actually serves a practical purpose.\nEli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundations, agreed. \"We have to show the public what research has achieved,\" he said. \"We have to show how it actually goes from basic research to something they can understand.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following can be the best title of this text?\n\n<options>:\nA Universities or colleges?\nB Workers or researchers?\nC Basic or further research?\nD Education or development?\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nCombining families with kids can be tough and offers even more unexpected problems. You just don't know how things will shake out until everyone is under one roof, trying on new roles with name that start with \"step\". This is what happened to Sheila and Will, and Sheila's 8-year-old daughter Ashley. After the couple got married, and Will became the member of the new family, things got worse than expected. How did they make it work? Read the full version of the story here.\nShelia's Turn: When Shelia and Will were dating, he seemed like kids, especially Ashley. He'd bring her presents, play games with her. But after the wedding, things took a turn. Will suddenly became a super strict stepfather, scolding Ashley for watching too much cartoons, constantly picking fights and punishing her for offenses as small as spilling milk. Shelia's thought about leaving Will, but soon after they married, they had a son, Billy. Will adores his well-behaved boy, but Ashley hates him. Shelia doesn't know what to do--- her daughter is miserable, but leaving her husband might mean losing her son.\nWill's turn: Will was so excited to be a male role model in Ashley's life. He didn't just want to be a guy living in her house; he wanted to treat her like his own daughter, which, to Will, meant giving Ashley more rules and help her learn responsibility. He'd always felt that Shelia let Ashley loose on everything. But after the wedding, Will was surprised that Shelia didn't want him to do that. If Will takes away Ashley's TV privileges or tells her to clean up her room, Shelia just lets Ashley do what she likes and does it herself. Will was tired of this and he'd rather take his son and go.\nThe advisor's turn: The counselor quickly recognized their conflict as a classic case of unspoken, hidden expectations. Before the wedding, when it was just Shelia and Will, everything was easy. But now, everyone in their big family is competing for attention, and the couple never sat down and discussed the biggest issue---their child-upbringing philosophies . The counselor suggested Shelia allow Will to give some rules on Ashley but Will's punishments couldn't be extreme. Once Ashley saw that her mom and stepdad had become a united front, she cooperated more.\n\n<question>:\nThe text is most likely to be found in a book about _ .\n\n<options>:\nA popular science\nB historical events\nC social problems\nD political systems\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nCombining families with kids can be tough and offers even more unexpected problems. You just don't know how things will shake out until everyone is under one roof, trying on new roles with name that start with \"step\". This is what happened to Sheila and Will, and Sheila's 8-year-old daughter Ashley. After the couple got married, and Will became the member of the new family, things got worse than expected. How did they make it work? Read the full version of the story here.\nShelia's Turn: When Shelia and Will were dating, he seemed like kids, especially Ashley. He'd bring her presents, play games with her. But after the wedding, things took a turn. Will suddenly became a super strict stepfather, scolding Ashley for watching too much cartoons, constantly picking fights and punishing her for offenses as small as spilling milk. Shelia's thought about leaving Will, but soon after they married, they had a son, Billy. Will adores his well-behaved boy, but Ashley hates him. Shelia doesn't know what to do--- her daughter is miserable, but leaving her husband might mean losing her son.\nWill's turn: Will was so excited to be a male role model in Ashley's life. He didn't just want to be a guy living in her house; he wanted to treat her like his own daughter, which, to Will, meant giving Ashley more rules and help her learn responsibility. He'd always felt that Shelia let Ashley loose on everything. But after the wedding, Will was surprised that Shelia didn't want him to do that. If Will takes away Ashley's TV privileges or tells her to clean up her room, Shelia just lets Ashley do what she likes and does it herself. Will was tired of this and he'd rather take his son and go.\nThe advisor's turn: The counselor quickly recognized their conflict as a classic case of unspoken, hidden expectations. Before the wedding, when it was just Shelia and Will, everything was easy. But now, everyone in their big family is competing for attention, and the couple never sat down and discussed the biggest issue---their child-upbringing philosophies . The counselor suggested Shelia allow Will to give some rules on Ashley but Will's punishments couldn't be extreme. Once Ashley saw that her mom and stepdad had become a united front, she cooperated more.\n\n<question>:\nThe reasons for Ashley's dislike of Will are as follows except _ ?\n\n<options>:\nA Will often picked fights with Ashley.\nB Ashley often spilled milk on the floor.\nC Will always punished her for bad behaviors.\nD Ashley was stopped watching too many cartoons.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIn China, chain restaurants -- especially the big multinational ones -- are cool. Going to Starbucks, for example, is a status symbol. It not only says, \"I'm rich enough to buy this overpriced coffee,\" but also, \"I'm cosmopolitan enough to be part of globalization.\"\nWhere I come from in the UK, however, chains are neither fashionable nor gourmet . Chains are where you go on New Year's Day when nowhere else is open, or when you are 5 years old and your parents can't stand hearing, \"I'm huuuuuungry!\" any longer. In my own case (with regards to McDonald's), a chain is where you are taken on your first \"date\". Even at the age of 13, I knew to give the guy the \"let's just be friends\" phone call the next day.\nIn the UK, independent cafes and restaurants are making a comeback on the fashion scene. Nowadays, a Londoner who says \"let's meet for a coffee at Monmouth\" (an independent cafe) is much cooler than one who says \"let's go to Starbucks\". Even if Monmouth's coffee is a little more expensive, there's a satisfaction in knowing your pounds aren't going straight to the big corporations.\nOf course, there are chain stores all over the UK; you can't go five minutes without spotting a Costa Coffee. But numbers do not add up to good taste.\nI do, however, have a confession . After moving to China I had moments when all the rice and Kung Pao Chicken became too much. I, too, have _ to McDonald's.\n\n<question>:\nMany Chinese people like to go to multinational chain restaurants because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA the restaurants give customers a taste of foreign culture\nB the restaurants offer different food and drinks from other restaurants\nC these restaurants are perfect places for a romantic date\nD they believe that eating there will show their wealth and social status\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIn China, chain restaurants -- especially the big multinational ones -- are cool. Going to Starbucks, for example, is a status symbol. It not only says, \"I'm rich enough to buy this overpriced coffee,\" but also, \"I'm cosmopolitan enough to be part of globalization.\"\nWhere I come from in the UK, however, chains are neither fashionable nor gourmet . Chains are where you go on New Year's Day when nowhere else is open, or when you are 5 years old and your parents can't stand hearing, \"I'm huuuuuungry!\" any longer. In my own case (with regards to McDonald's), a chain is where you are taken on your first \"date\". Even at the age of 13, I knew to give the guy the \"let's just be friends\" phone call the next day.\nIn the UK, independent cafes and restaurants are making a comeback on the fashion scene. Nowadays, a Londoner who says \"let's meet for a coffee at Monmouth\" (an independent cafe) is much cooler than one who says \"let's go to Starbucks\". Even if Monmouth's coffee is a little more expensive, there's a satisfaction in knowing your pounds aren't going straight to the big corporations.\nOf course, there are chain stores all over the UK; you can't go five minutes without spotting a Costa Coffee. But numbers do not add up to good taste.\nI do, however, have a confession . After moving to China I had moments when all the rice and Kung Pao Chicken became too much. I, too, have _ to McDonald's.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statements is TRUE?\n\n<options>:\nA The author has grown tired of Chinese food.\nB Most independent stores are closed on New Year's Day in the UK.\nC Branches of Monmouth's cafe can be found all over the UK.\nD It is cool in the UK to take your first date to a chain restaurant.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIn China, chain restaurants -- especially the big multinational ones -- are cool. Going to Starbucks, for example, is a status symbol. It not only says, \"I'm rich enough to buy this overpriced coffee,\" but also, \"I'm cosmopolitan enough to be part of globalization.\"\nWhere I come from in the UK, however, chains are neither fashionable nor gourmet . Chains are where you go on New Year's Day when nowhere else is open, or when you are 5 years old and your parents can't stand hearing, \"I'm huuuuuungry!\" any longer. In my own case (with regards to McDonald's), a chain is where you are taken on your first \"date\". Even at the age of 13, I knew to give the guy the \"let's just be friends\" phone call the next day.\nIn the UK, independent cafes and restaurants are making a comeback on the fashion scene. Nowadays, a Londoner who says \"let's meet for a coffee at Monmouth\" (an independent cafe) is much cooler than one who says \"let's go to Starbucks\". Even if Monmouth's coffee is a little more expensive, there's a satisfaction in knowing your pounds aren't going straight to the big corporations.\nOf course, there are chain stores all over the UK; you can't go five minutes without spotting a Costa Coffee. But numbers do not add up to good taste.\nI do, however, have a confession . After moving to China I had moments when all the rice and Kung Pao Chicken became too much. I, too, have _ to McDonald's.\n\n<question>:\nWe can infer from the article that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA many Britons don't like big corporations\nB the author doesn't like food from Pizza Hut\nC the author doesn't like to follow fashion trends\nD many Britons think that numbers mean poor quality\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nNo one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon and part of it taken out. Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain.\nLong ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.\nSoon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called \"laughing gas\".Laughing gas became known in America.Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing,but one man at a party,Horace Wells,noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas.He decided to make an experiment on himself.He asked a friend to help him.\nWells took some of the gas,and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth.Wells felt no pain at all.\nAs he didn't know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.\nWells tried again,but this time he gave too much of the gas,and the man died.Wells never forgot this terrible event.\n\n<question>:\nIt is _ since a man being operated felt all the pain.\n\n<options>:\nA a few more years\nB not long\nC few years\nD two thousand years\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nNo one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon and part of it taken out. Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain.\nLong ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.\nSoon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called \"laughing gas\".Laughing gas became known in America.Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing,but one man at a party,Horace Wells,noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas.He decided to make an experiment on himself.He asked a friend to help him.\nWells took some of the gas,and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth.Wells felt no pain at all.\nAs he didn't know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.\nWells tried again,but this time he gave too much of the gas,and the man died.Wells never forgot this terrible event.\n\n<question>:\nLong ago, when the sick man was operated on, he _ .\n\n<options>:\nA could feel nothing\nB could not want anything\nC could feel all the pain\nD could do anything\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nNo one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon and part of it taken out. Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain.\nLong ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.\nSoon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called \"laughing gas\".Laughing gas became known in America.Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing,but one man at a party,Horace Wells,noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas.He decided to make an experiment on himself.He asked a friend to help him.\nWells took some of the gas,and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth.Wells felt no pain at all.\nAs he didn't know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.\nWells tried again,but this time he gave too much of the gas,and the man died.Wells never forgot this terrible event.\n\n<question>:\nUsing the laughing gas, the people did not seem to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA be afraid of anything\nB feel pain\nC want to go to the parties\nD be ill\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nNo one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon and part of it taken out. Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain.\nLong ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.\nSoon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called \"laughing gas\".Laughing gas became known in America.Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing,but one man at a party,Horace Wells,noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas.He decided to make an experiment on himself.He asked a friend to help him.\nWells took some of the gas,and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth.Wells felt no pain at all.\nAs he didn't know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.\nWells tried again,but this time he gave too much of the gas,and the man died.Wells never forgot this terrible event.\n\n<question>:\nIf a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on he _ .\n\n<options>:\nA felt nothing\nB felt very comfortable\nC still felt pain\nD would die\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe global energy crisis is approaching. What can we do? Here are some steps you can take.\nCooling puts the greatest stress on your summer energy bill and the power grid . Just as t tune-up for your car can improve your gas mileage, a yearly tune-up of your heating and cooling system can improve efficiency and comfort. Clean or replaces filters monthly or as needed.\nFor central air conditioning systems and room air conditioners, look for the ENERGY STAR, the federal government's symbol for energy efficiency. For central air, purchase the system with the highest possible Seasonal Energy Efficiency Raton. (SEER)\nUse energy-efficient ceiling fans either alone or with air conditioning. Ceiling fans do a great job of circulating air. When used with air conditioning, fans allow you to raise the thermostat and cut costs. Ceiling fans cool people, not rooms, so before you leave; turn off the ceiling fan.\nLet a programmable thermostat! \"remember for you\" to automatically adjust the indoor climate with your daily and weekend patterns to reduce cooling bills by up to 10 percent. You can come home to a comfortable house without wasting energy and cresting pollution all day while you are at work.\nTry to make your home airtight enough to increase your comfort, make your home quieter and cleaner and reduce your cooling costs up to 20 percent.\nGut your air conditioning load, and reduce pollution by planting planting leafy trees around your home and fixing reflective bricks on your roof.\nClose blinds or shades on south-and west-facing windows during the day, or fix shading equipment to avoid heat build-up.\nTurn off everything not in use: lights, TVs, computers. And use fluorescent bulbs , which provide bright, warm light while using at least two-thirds less energy, producing 70 percent less heat and lasting up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs .\nDrive the car that gets better gas mileage whenever possible if you own more than one vehicle. If you drive 12,500 miles a year, switching 10 percent of your trips from a car that gets 20 mils per gallon to one that gets 30 mpg will save you more than PS65 per year.\nCarpool. The average U.S. commuter could save about PS260 a year by sharing cars twice a week with two people in a car that gets 20.1 mpg---assuming the three passengers share the cost of gas.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, the thermostat is used to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA make rooms quieter\nB control room temperature\nC turn off the air conditioner\nD reduce room air pollution\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe global energy crisis is approaching. What can we do? Here are some steps you can take.\nCooling puts the greatest stress on your summer energy bill and the power grid . Just as t tune-up for your car can improve your gas mileage, a yearly tune-up of your heating and cooling system can improve efficiency and comfort. Clean or replaces filters monthly or as needed.\nFor central air conditioning systems and room air conditioners, look for the ENERGY STAR, the federal government's symbol for energy efficiency. For central air, purchase the system with the highest possible Seasonal Energy Efficiency Raton. (SEER)\nUse energy-efficient ceiling fans either alone or with air conditioning. Ceiling fans do a great job of circulating air. When used with air conditioning, fans allow you to raise the thermostat and cut costs. Ceiling fans cool people, not rooms, so before you leave; turn off the ceiling fan.\nLet a programmable thermostat! \"remember for you\" to automatically adjust the indoor climate with your daily and weekend patterns to reduce cooling bills by up to 10 percent. You can come home to a comfortable house without wasting energy and cresting pollution all day while you are at work.\nTry to make your home airtight enough to increase your comfort, make your home quieter and cleaner and reduce your cooling costs up to 20 percent.\nGut your air conditioning load, and reduce pollution by planting planting leafy trees around your home and fixing reflective bricks on your roof.\nClose blinds or shades on south-and west-facing windows during the day, or fix shading equipment to avoid heat build-up.\nTurn off everything not in use: lights, TVs, computers. And use fluorescent bulbs , which provide bright, warm light while using at least two-thirds less energy, producing 70 percent less heat and lasting up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs .\nDrive the car that gets better gas mileage whenever possible if you own more than one vehicle. If you drive 12,500 miles a year, switching 10 percent of your trips from a car that gets 20 mils per gallon to one that gets 30 mpg will save you more than PS65 per year.\nCarpool. The average U.S. commuter could save about PS260 a year by sharing cars twice a week with two people in a car that gets 20.1 mpg---assuming the three passengers share the cost of gas.\n\n<question>:\nWe can conclude from the passage that the author probably discourages _ .\n\n<options>:\nA planting leafy trees around your home\nB turning off the ceiling fan before you leave your house\nC keeping your south-facing windows open during the day\nD using fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent bulbs\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe global energy crisis is approaching. What can we do? Here are some steps you can take.\nCooling puts the greatest stress on your summer energy bill and the power grid . Just as t tune-up for your car can improve your gas mileage, a yearly tune-up of your heating and cooling system can improve efficiency and comfort. Clean or replaces filters monthly or as needed.\nFor central air conditioning systems and room air conditioners, look for the ENERGY STAR, the federal government's symbol for energy efficiency. For central air, purchase the system with the highest possible Seasonal Energy Efficiency Raton. (SEER)\nUse energy-efficient ceiling fans either alone or with air conditioning. Ceiling fans do a great job of circulating air. When used with air conditioning, fans allow you to raise the thermostat and cut costs. Ceiling fans cool people, not rooms, so before you leave; turn off the ceiling fan.\nLet a programmable thermostat! \"remember for you\" to automatically adjust the indoor climate with your daily and weekend patterns to reduce cooling bills by up to 10 percent. You can come home to a comfortable house without wasting energy and cresting pollution all day while you are at work.\nTry to make your home airtight enough to increase your comfort, make your home quieter and cleaner and reduce your cooling costs up to 20 percent.\nGut your air conditioning load, and reduce pollution by planting planting leafy trees around your home and fixing reflective bricks on your roof.\nClose blinds or shades on south-and west-facing windows during the day, or fix shading equipment to avoid heat build-up.\nTurn off everything not in use: lights, TVs, computers. And use fluorescent bulbs , which provide bright, warm light while using at least two-thirds less energy, producing 70 percent less heat and lasting up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs .\nDrive the car that gets better gas mileage whenever possible if you own more than one vehicle. If you drive 12,500 miles a year, switching 10 percent of your trips from a car that gets 20 mils per gallon to one that gets 30 mpg will save you more than PS65 per year.\nCarpool. The average U.S. commuter could save about PS260 a year by sharing cars twice a week with two people in a car that gets 20.1 mpg---assuming the three passengers share the cost of gas.\n\n<question>:\nThis passage is mainly about _ .\n\n<options>:\nA energy-saving tips\nB fuel-saving tips\nC do-it-yourself tips\nD environment-protecting tips\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIn 1886 explorer Robert Peary traveled to Greenland for the U.S. Navy. Before his journey, no one knew Greenland's size or shape. On Peary's first trips, he explored Greenland, mapping parts of it.\nWhen Peary returned to the United States, he went to a businessman to sell some furs. There he met Matthew Henson, an African American mechanic, builder and navigator. When Peary went to Nicaragua on a Navy mission ,Henson went with him. When that job was over, the two headed to the Arctic.\nHenson and Peary set sail for Greenland. When they landed, Henson built a house for their base camp. Peary and his men set out to explore the land by dog sledge . Henson was injured and had to stay at the base. While there, he made friends with the Inuit, the native people.\nIn 1895 Henson, Peary and Hugh Lee went out on another dog sledge journey. This time, they found Greenland's northernmost point. They now knew that the North Pole lay under the frozen Arctic Ocean. Peary had hoped to cross the ice. but the group ran out of food and returned to base camp. In the years that followed, Peary and Henson tried several times to reach the North Pole, but each time they failed. On one trip, Peary's feet froze, and he lost his toes .\nPeary and Henson planned last trip when Peary was 53 years old. They started across the sea ice from Ellesmere Island, which is located north of Canada. The temperature dropped as low as--51 degrees Celsius. The explores' cheeks froze , and they suffered snow blindness from the sun's glare. They experienced high winds and storms, and they also faced a hidden danger. Under the frozen ocean were powerful currents . The ice moved and broke apart leaving open water, called leads. Twice Peary fell into leads. But eventually he and Henson became the first persons to reach the North Pole.\n\n<question>:\nWhat did Peary and Henson find in 1895?\n\n<options>:\nA Greenland is near the Artic Ocean.\nB Ellesmere Island is located north of Canada.\nC The North Pole is located in the Artic Ocean.\nD Greenland's northernmost point is the North Pole.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIn 1886 explorer Robert Peary traveled to Greenland for the U.S. Navy. Before his journey, no one knew Greenland's size or shape. On Peary's first trips, he explored Greenland, mapping parts of it.\nWhen Peary returned to the United States, he went to a businessman to sell some furs. There he met Matthew Henson, an African American mechanic, builder and navigator. When Peary went to Nicaragua on a Navy mission ,Henson went with him. When that job was over, the two headed to the Arctic.\nHenson and Peary set sail for Greenland. When they landed, Henson built a house for their base camp. Peary and his men set out to explore the land by dog sledge . Henson was injured and had to stay at the base. While there, he made friends with the Inuit, the native people.\nIn 1895 Henson, Peary and Hugh Lee went out on another dog sledge journey. This time, they found Greenland's northernmost point. They now knew that the North Pole lay under the frozen Arctic Ocean. Peary had hoped to cross the ice. but the group ran out of food and returned to base camp. In the years that followed, Peary and Henson tried several times to reach the North Pole, but each time they failed. On one trip, Peary's feet froze, and he lost his toes .\nPeary and Henson planned last trip when Peary was 53 years old. They started across the sea ice from Ellesmere Island, which is located north of Canada. The temperature dropped as low as--51 degrees Celsius. The explores' cheeks froze , and they suffered snow blindness from the sun's glare. They experienced high winds and storms, and they also faced a hidden danger. Under the frozen ocean were powerful currents . The ice moved and broke apart leaving open water, called leads. Twice Peary fell into leads. But eventually he and Henson became the first persons to reach the North Pole.\n\n<question>:\nThe best title for the passage might be \" _ \".\n\n<options>:\nA The mapping of the Arctic Ocean.\nB Peary and Henson: Arctic explorers\nC Early explorers' trips to the South Pole\nD Henson and Peary: discoverers of Greenland\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAround the World in Eighty Daysis a classic Adventure novel by Jules Verne. The story starts in London in 1872. One day in the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy gentleman, accepts a wager for PS20,000, which he will receive if he travels around the world in 80 days.\nPhileas Fogg sets off immediately, with his servant Passepartout. They reach Suez quickly. While landing in Egypt, he is watched by a British detective named Fix, who is in search of a bank robber. Because Fix mistakes Fogg for the criminal, he follows secretly, as they are getting on a ship to Bombay.\nAfter more than 20-days of travelling, they arrive in San Francisco, and then get on the train to New York. During that trip, the train is attacked by Indians, who take Passepartout away. With some soldiers' help, Fogg succeeds in freeing his companion. To make up for the lost time, Fogg and his companion hasten on to New York, and catch the steamer for the crossing of the Atlantics. They arrive in Ireland in time to reach London before the deadline. However, once on British soil again, Fix arrests Fogg. Although the misunderstanding is quickly cleared up--the actual bank robber had been caught several days earlier. Fogg has missed the train and returns to London five minutes late, sure that he has lost the wager.\nHowever, the next day Fogg learns from the priest that he is mistaken in the date, which he thinks Sunday but which actually is Saturday, due to the fact that they gained a full day on their journey around the globe, by crossing the International Date Line. Fogg immediately sets off for the Reform Club, where he arrives just in time to win the wager.\n\n<question>:\nThe reason that Fix wants to arrest Phileas Fogg is that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Phileas Fogg is the bank robber whom Fix is trying to catch\nB Phileas Fogg doesn't have a passport for his travels\nC Fix mistakenly takes Phileas Fogg for the bank robber\nD Fix intends to prevent Fogg from winning the wager\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAround the World in Eighty Daysis a classic Adventure novel by Jules Verne. The story starts in London in 1872. One day in the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy gentleman, accepts a wager for PS20,000, which he will receive if he travels around the world in 80 days.\nPhileas Fogg sets off immediately, with his servant Passepartout. They reach Suez quickly. While landing in Egypt, he is watched by a British detective named Fix, who is in search of a bank robber. Because Fix mistakes Fogg for the criminal, he follows secretly, as they are getting on a ship to Bombay.\nAfter more than 20-days of travelling, they arrive in San Francisco, and then get on the train to New York. During that trip, the train is attacked by Indians, who take Passepartout away. With some soldiers' help, Fogg succeeds in freeing his companion. To make up for the lost time, Fogg and his companion hasten on to New York, and catch the steamer for the crossing of the Atlantics. They arrive in Ireland in time to reach London before the deadline. However, once on British soil again, Fix arrests Fogg. Although the misunderstanding is quickly cleared up--the actual bank robber had been caught several days earlier. Fogg has missed the train and returns to London five minutes late, sure that he has lost the wager.\nHowever, the next day Fogg learns from the priest that he is mistaken in the date, which he thinks Sunday but which actually is Saturday, due to the fact that they gained a full day on their journey around the globe, by crossing the International Date Line. Fogg immediately sets off for the Reform Club, where he arrives just in time to win the wager.\n\n<question>:\nDuring his time in America, Phileas Fogg spends a lot of \"unexpected\" time _ .\n\n<options>:\nA travelling across the continent of America\nB rescuing his companion from the Indians\nC waiting for the ship back to London\nD getting rid of the pursuing of Fix\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAround the World in Eighty Daysis a classic Adventure novel by Jules Verne. The story starts in London in 1872. One day in the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy gentleman, accepts a wager for PS20,000, which he will receive if he travels around the world in 80 days.\nPhileas Fogg sets off immediately, with his servant Passepartout. They reach Suez quickly. While landing in Egypt, he is watched by a British detective named Fix, who is in search of a bank robber. Because Fix mistakes Fogg for the criminal, he follows secretly, as they are getting on a ship to Bombay.\nAfter more than 20-days of travelling, they arrive in San Francisco, and then get on the train to New York. During that trip, the train is attacked by Indians, who take Passepartout away. With some soldiers' help, Fogg succeeds in freeing his companion. To make up for the lost time, Fogg and his companion hasten on to New York, and catch the steamer for the crossing of the Atlantics. They arrive in Ireland in time to reach London before the deadline. However, once on British soil again, Fix arrests Fogg. Although the misunderstanding is quickly cleared up--the actual bank robber had been caught several days earlier. Fogg has missed the train and returns to London five minutes late, sure that he has lost the wager.\nHowever, the next day Fogg learns from the priest that he is mistaken in the date, which he thinks Sunday but which actually is Saturday, due to the fact that they gained a full day on their journey around the globe, by crossing the International Date Line. Fogg immediately sets off for the Reform Club, where he arrives just in time to win the wager.\n\n<question>:\nDoes Phileas Fogg win the wager at last? Why?\n\n<options>:\nA No. Because he doesn't get to the Reform Club before the deadline.\nB Yes. Because he is not the bank robber; it's a misunderstanding.\nC No. Because he wastes too much time during his trip.\nD Yes. Because he arrives at the Reform Club before the deadline.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nFor over 40 years, Gallup &Stribling has been _ and growing excellent quality orchids at a 48-acre farm on the central California Coast.\nNow, through our Visitor Center, we're making our award winning orchids available to the public at incredibly low, farm-direct prices. When you come to our Visitor Center you'll see hundreds of beautiful flowering orchids that you can purchase and take home. An expert nurseryman is always on hand to answer questions, help with cultures, and offer growing advice.\nAt our Visitor Center you'll find\n^Hundreds of varieties of designer quality, flowering or hybrid orchids at low farm-direct prices.\n^Beautiful orchids grown at our farm, along with those from top planters around the world.\n^A variety of orchid cultures, pots fertilizers, and growing aids.\n^Expert advice and detailed growing information to help you grow beautiful orchids.\nGallup and Stribling's Visitor Center is open daily throughout the year.\nPhone 805-684-9842 for more information.\nFrom Santa Barbara: Take Highway 101 South to the Padaro Lane exit in Carpinteria. Turn left, then make a right on Via Real, and go approximately one-half mile to the Visitor Center entrance.\nFrom Los Angeles: Take Highway 101 North to the Padaro Lane exit in Carpinteria. Turn right, then make a right on Via Real, and go approximately one-half mile to the Visitor Center entrance.\n\n<question>:\nMost people come to Gallup &Stribling mainly to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA learn skills of growing flowers\nB buy high quality flowers\nC make a tour of enjoying flowers\nD visit experts on gardening\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nFor over 40 years, Gallup &Stribling has been _ and growing excellent quality orchids at a 48-acre farm on the central California Coast.\nNow, through our Visitor Center, we're making our award winning orchids available to the public at incredibly low, farm-direct prices. When you come to our Visitor Center you'll see hundreds of beautiful flowering orchids that you can purchase and take home. An expert nurseryman is always on hand to answer questions, help with cultures, and offer growing advice.\nAt our Visitor Center you'll find\n^Hundreds of varieties of designer quality, flowering or hybrid orchids at low farm-direct prices.\n^Beautiful orchids grown at our farm, along with those from top planters around the world.\n^A variety of orchid cultures, pots fertilizers, and growing aids.\n^Expert advice and detailed growing information to help you grow beautiful orchids.\nGallup and Stribling's Visitor Center is open daily throughout the year.\nPhone 805-684-9842 for more information.\nFrom Santa Barbara: Take Highway 101 South to the Padaro Lane exit in Carpinteria. Turn left, then make a right on Via Real, and go approximately one-half mile to the Visitor Center entrance.\nFrom Los Angeles: Take Highway 101 North to the Padaro Lane exit in Carpinteria. Turn right, then make a right on Via Real, and go approximately one-half mile to the Visitor Center entrance.\n\n<question>:\nYou can't find _ at the Visitor Center of Gallup &Stribling.\n\n<options>:\nA detailed growing information\nB various orchids at very low prices\nC things to help growing orchids\nD maps to get to Gallup &Stribling\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nFor over 40 years, Gallup &Stribling has been _ and growing excellent quality orchids at a 48-acre farm on the central California Coast.\nNow, through our Visitor Center, we're making our award winning orchids available to the public at incredibly low, farm-direct prices. When you come to our Visitor Center you'll see hundreds of beautiful flowering orchids that you can purchase and take home. An expert nurseryman is always on hand to answer questions, help with cultures, and offer growing advice.\nAt our Visitor Center you'll find\n^Hundreds of varieties of designer quality, flowering or hybrid orchids at low farm-direct prices.\n^Beautiful orchids grown at our farm, along with those from top planters around the world.\n^A variety of orchid cultures, pots fertilizers, and growing aids.\n^Expert advice and detailed growing information to help you grow beautiful orchids.\nGallup and Stribling's Visitor Center is open daily throughout the year.\nPhone 805-684-9842 for more information.\nFrom Santa Barbara: Take Highway 101 South to the Padaro Lane exit in Carpinteria. Turn left, then make a right on Via Real, and go approximately one-half mile to the Visitor Center entrance.\nFrom Los Angeles: Take Highway 101 North to the Padaro Lane exit in Carpinteria. Turn right, then make a right on Via Real, and go approximately one-half mile to the Visitor Center entrance.\n\n<question>:\nPeople can come to Gallup &Stribling and enjoy orchids _ .\n\n<options>:\nA only in summer or fall\nB by visiting the Visitor Center\nC taking Highway 110\nD to buy any kind of flowers\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMost Americans would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are which Americans live by. They have never given the matter any thought.\nOver the years I have introduced thousands of international visitors to life in the United States. This has caused me to try to look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors, I am confident that the values listed in this booklet describe most (but not all )Americans, and that understanding these values can help you, the international visitor, understand Americans.\nIt is my belief that if foreign visitors really understand how deeply these 13 values are _ in Americans, they will then be able to understand 95% of American actions --actions which might otherwise appear \"strange,\"\" confusing,\" or \"unbelievable\" when evaluated from the perspective (aspect) of the foreigner's own society and its values.\nThe different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group. When you encounter (meet) an action, or hear a statement in the United States which surprises you, try to see it as an expression of one or more of the values listed in this booklet.\n\n<question>:\nAn ordinary American can't tell you his / her value system because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA this is something an American lives by\nB everyone will have his/her own system\nC he/she has never thought about it\nD values are something often in their thought\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMost Americans would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are which Americans live by. They have never given the matter any thought.\nOver the years I have introduced thousands of international visitors to life in the United States. This has caused me to try to look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors, I am confident that the values listed in this booklet describe most (but not all )Americans, and that understanding these values can help you, the international visitor, understand Americans.\nIt is my belief that if foreign visitors really understand how deeply these 13 values are _ in Americans, they will then be able to understand 95% of American actions --actions which might otherwise appear \"strange,\"\" confusing,\" or \"unbelievable\" when evaluated from the perspective (aspect) of the foreigner's own society and its values.\nThe different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group. When you encounter (meet) an action, or hear a statement in the United States which surprises you, try to see it as an expression of one or more of the values listed in this booklet.\n\n<question>:\nThe author lists 13 values in his booklet to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA invite foreigners to visit America\nB look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors\nC describe the confusing actions of most Americans\nD help international visitors understand Americans\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMost Americans would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are which Americans live by. They have never given the matter any thought.\nOver the years I have introduced thousands of international visitors to life in the United States. This has caused me to try to look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors, I am confident that the values listed in this booklet describe most (but not all )Americans, and that understanding these values can help you, the international visitor, understand Americans.\nIt is my belief that if foreign visitors really understand how deeply these 13 values are _ in Americans, they will then be able to understand 95% of American actions --actions which might otherwise appear \"strange,\"\" confusing,\" or \"unbelievable\" when evaluated from the perspective (aspect) of the foreigner's own society and its values.\nThe different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group. When you encounter (meet) an action, or hear a statement in the United States which surprises you, try to see it as an expression of one or more of the values listed in this booklet.\n\n<question>:\nVisitors sometimes find Americans behave in a strange, confusing or unbelievable way, probably because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Americans are hard to understand\nB Americans have values which are entirely different from their own\nC they view Americans according to the values in their own society\nD it is difficult to understand any people when you first encounter them\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt all began with a stop at a red light.\nKevin Salwen was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006 . While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes Coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.\n\"Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal.\"Hannah protested. The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable. She pestered her parents about _ insisting that she wanted to do something.\n\"What do you want to do?\" her mom responded. \"Sell our house?\"\nWarning! _ . Hannah seized upon the idea of selling the luxurious family home and donating half the proceeds to charity, while using the other half to buy a more modest replacement home.\nEventually, that's what the family did. The project --crazy, impetuous and utterly inspiring -- is written down in detail in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: \"The Power of Half.\" It's a book that, frankly, I'd be nervous about leaving around where my own teenage kids might find it. An impressionable child reads this, and the next thing you know your whole family is out on the street.\nAt a time of enormous needs in Haiti and elsewhere, when so many Americans are trying to help Haitians by sending everything from text messages to shoes, the Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference -- for themselves as much as the people they were trying to help. In a column a week ago, it described neurological evidence from brain scans that unselfishness lights up parts of the brain normally associated with more primary satisfaction. The Salwens' experience confirms the selfish pleasures of selflessness.\nMr. Salwen and his wife, Joan, had always assumed that their kids would be better off in a bigger house. But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other. A smaller house unexpectedly turned out to be a more family-friendly house.\n\n<question>:\nThe best title for the passage should be \" _ \".\n\n<options>:\nA The Less, the Better\nB An Expected Satisfaction\nC Something We Can Live Without\nD Somewhat Crazy but Inspiring\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt all began with a stop at a red light.\nKevin Salwen was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006 . While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes Coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.\n\"Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal.\"Hannah protested. The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable. She pestered her parents about _ insisting that she wanted to do something.\n\"What do you want to do?\" her mom responded. \"Sell our house?\"\nWarning! _ . Hannah seized upon the idea of selling the luxurious family home and donating half the proceeds to charity, while using the other half to buy a more modest replacement home.\nEventually, that's what the family did. The project --crazy, impetuous and utterly inspiring -- is written down in detail in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: \"The Power of Half.\" It's a book that, frankly, I'd be nervous about leaving around where my own teenage kids might find it. An impressionable child reads this, and the next thing you know your whole family is out on the street.\nAt a time of enormous needs in Haiti and elsewhere, when so many Americans are trying to help Haitians by sending everything from text messages to shoes, the Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference -- for themselves as much as the people they were trying to help. In a column a week ago, it described neurological evidence from brain scans that unselfishness lights up parts of the brain normally associated with more primary satisfaction. The Salwens' experience confirms the selfish pleasures of selflessness.\nMr. Salwen and his wife, Joan, had always assumed that their kids would be better off in a bigger house. But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other. A smaller house unexpectedly turned out to be a more family-friendly house.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Mercedes Coupe is only an ordinary car which is quite cheap.\nB Unselfishness has nothing to do with people's primary satisfaction.\nC Hannah asked her parents to do something charitable and they sold their house.\nD The writer's children asked him to sell their house.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt was Saturday, so Mr. Smith did not have to go to work. It had snowed heavily the night before, and Mr. Smith's son Bobby had a new sledge , which he had been very eager to try out for a long while. There was a good slope in a park not far away from the Smiths' house -- a slope which children often used for their sledges, so Mr. Smith agreed to take Bobby there in the car. They put the sledge in and went off. \nWhen they reached the park, they found that there were already a lot of boys there, each boy with a sledge of his own. They were sliding down the slope at great speed, and then pulling their sledges up again for another go. \nMr. Smith stood by, watching them with a smile. It was obvious that each and every one of them had much fun. After a few moments, Mr. Smith suddenly saw among the boys a kid who was small and poorly-dressed, and did not have a sledge. This boy had flattened out one old cardboard box, and was sliding down the slope on that. Mr. Smith felt very sorry for this poor boy, and determined to tell his son Bobby to share his new sledge with the boy. \nBut before he could catch Bobby to speak to him, he was somewhat surprised -- and much more delighted -- to notice that several of the older boys in the park were already offering the poor boy their nice sledges. Mr. Smith watched them with greater interest -- and suddenly realized that the bigger boys were not doing this because they felt sorry for the poor boy, but because they enjoyed riding on his cardboard box more than on their own sledges. They were actually waiting eagerly and impatiently for a turn on the flattened cardboard box!\n\n<question>:\nWhat did Bobby desire to do for a long time?\n\n<options>:\nA To test and play with his new sledge.\nB To make a new icy slope by himself.\nC To skate with his father in the nearby park.\nD To ride in his father's car on a snowy night.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt was Saturday, so Mr. Smith did not have to go to work. It had snowed heavily the night before, and Mr. Smith's son Bobby had a new sledge , which he had been very eager to try out for a long while. There was a good slope in a park not far away from the Smiths' house -- a slope which children often used for their sledges, so Mr. Smith agreed to take Bobby there in the car. They put the sledge in and went off. \nWhen they reached the park, they found that there were already a lot of boys there, each boy with a sledge of his own. They were sliding down the slope at great speed, and then pulling their sledges up again for another go. \nMr. Smith stood by, watching them with a smile. It was obvious that each and every one of them had much fun. After a few moments, Mr. Smith suddenly saw among the boys a kid who was small and poorly-dressed, and did not have a sledge. This boy had flattened out one old cardboard box, and was sliding down the slope on that. Mr. Smith felt very sorry for this poor boy, and determined to tell his son Bobby to share his new sledge with the boy. \nBut before he could catch Bobby to speak to him, he was somewhat surprised -- and much more delighted -- to notice that several of the older boys in the park were already offering the poor boy their nice sledges. Mr. Smith watched them with greater interest -- and suddenly realized that the bigger boys were not doing this because they felt sorry for the poor boy, but because they enjoyed riding on his cardboard box more than on their own sledges. They were actually waiting eagerly and impatiently for a turn on the flattened cardboard box!\n\n<question>:\nWhat did Mr. Smith notice shortly after arriving at the park?\n\n<options>:\nA Some boys were waiting for their turns to slide patiently.\nB A poor boy didn't have a sledge but a flattened cardboard box.\nC A big boy was sliding down the slope on a sledge at great speed.\nD Many boys offered to share their own sledges with each other.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt was Saturday, so Mr. Smith did not have to go to work. It had snowed heavily the night before, and Mr. Smith's son Bobby had a new sledge , which he had been very eager to try out for a long while. There was a good slope in a park not far away from the Smiths' house -- a slope which children often used for their sledges, so Mr. Smith agreed to take Bobby there in the car. They put the sledge in and went off. \nWhen they reached the park, they found that there were already a lot of boys there, each boy with a sledge of his own. They were sliding down the slope at great speed, and then pulling their sledges up again for another go. \nMr. Smith stood by, watching them with a smile. It was obvious that each and every one of them had much fun. After a few moments, Mr. Smith suddenly saw among the boys a kid who was small and poorly-dressed, and did not have a sledge. This boy had flattened out one old cardboard box, and was sliding down the slope on that. Mr. Smith felt very sorry for this poor boy, and determined to tell his son Bobby to share his new sledge with the boy. \nBut before he could catch Bobby to speak to him, he was somewhat surprised -- and much more delighted -- to notice that several of the older boys in the park were already offering the poor boy their nice sledges. Mr. Smith watched them with greater interest -- and suddenly realized that the bigger boys were not doing this because they felt sorry for the poor boy, but because they enjoyed riding on his cardboard box more than on their own sledges. They were actually waiting eagerly and impatiently for a turn on the flattened cardboard box!\n\n<question>:\nMr. Smith was very pleased before speaking to his son because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA the bigger boys enjoyed riding on their sledges more than on the box\nB the small and poor boy had already got a new sledge from his parents\nC all the boys were sharing the flattened cardboard box in turns politely\nD some of the bigger boys had already offered their sledges to the poor boy\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAnyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.\nBorn in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became _ while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.\nGraduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.\nTyler became well-known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.\nTyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent spirit in their work.\nAlthough Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.\n\n<question>:\nWho are most probably interested in Ralph W. Tyler's memoir?\n\n<options>:\nA Top managers.\nB Language learners.\nC Serious educators.\nD Science organizations.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAnyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.\nBorn in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became _ while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.\nGraduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.\nTyler became well-known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.\nTyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent spirit in their work.\nAlthough Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.\n\n<question>:\nWhere did Tyler work as the leader of a research center for over 10 years?\n\n<options>:\nA The University of Chicago.\nB Stanford University.\nC Ohio State University.\nD Nebraska University.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn't breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck, move his head back and press his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn't work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils (the two holes at the end of your nose, through which you breathe and smell things) together with your fingers. Open your mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until professional help arrives.\nTo bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If, in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey colour, and you can feel no pulse , then pressing is the last chance of saving his life.\nWith arms straight, rock forwards, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don't be too hard or you may break a rib. Check how effective you are by seeing if his colour improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Otherwise continue until rescue arrives.\n\n<question>:\nIf you want to save someone drowning, you _ .\n\n<options>:\nA have to pull off his clothes first .\nB should try to get him out of water as quickly as possible.\nC should first make out who he is.\nD ought to throw a life coat to him first .\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn't breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck, move his head back and press his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn't work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils (the two holes at the end of your nose, through which you breathe and smell things) together with your fingers. Open your mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until professional help arrives.\nTo bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If, in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey colour, and you can feel no pulse , then pressing is the last chance of saving his life.\nWith arms straight, rock forwards, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don't be too hard or you may break a rib. Check how effective you are by seeing if his colour improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Otherwise continue until rescue arrives.\n\n<question>:\nOnce a person stops breathing, it means _ .\n\n<options>:\nA you have no more than 4 minutes to bring him to life again .\nB his brain is completely damaged .\nC he has passed away.\nD there is no way to save his life .\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn't breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck, move his head back and press his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn't work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils (the two holes at the end of your nose, through which you breathe and smell things) together with your fingers. Open your mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until professional help arrives.\nTo bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If, in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey colour, and you can feel no pulse , then pressing is the last chance of saving his life.\nWith arms straight, rock forwards, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don't be too hard or you may break a rib. Check how effective you are by seeing if his colour improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Otherwise continue until rescue arrives.\n\n<question>:\nTo press his chin upwards is a way to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA keep the tongue from blocking the airway in the throat .\nB prevent the tongue from stopping the airway in the throat .\nC wipe the tongue out of the throat .\nD see if he can possibly be saved .\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn't breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck, move his head back and press his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn't work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils (the two holes at the end of your nose, through which you breathe and smell things) together with your fingers. Open your mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until professional help arrives.\nTo bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If, in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey colour, and you can feel no pulse , then pressing is the last chance of saving his life.\nWith arms straight, rock forwards, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don't be too hard or you may break a rib. Check how effective you are by seeing if his colour improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Otherwise continue until rescue arrives.\n\n<question>:\nIf the drowning boy has no pulse, _ .\n\n<options>:\nA press his chin upwards is enough to get him breathing .\nB blow air into his mouth is sure to save his life .\nC press his nostrils together with your fingers can work .\nD press is the last chance of saving his life .\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn't breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck, move his head back and press his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn't work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils (the two holes at the end of your nose, through which you breathe and smell things) together with your fingers. Open your mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until professional help arrives.\nTo bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If, in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey colour, and you can feel no pulse , then pressing is the last chance of saving his life.\nWith arms straight, rock forwards, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don't be too hard or you may break a rib. Check how effective you are by seeing if his colour improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Otherwise continue until rescue arrives.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statement is true?\n\n<options>:\nA Don't stop pressing his chest, if the drowning man starts breathing again.\nB If you see someone drowning, you must give him mouth-to-mouth breathing.\nC If a man does not breathe for four minutes, his brain will be completely destroyed.\nD When pressing, you can do it as hard as you can.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMaybe it is true that we do not know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we do not know what we have been missing until it arrives. \nIt takes an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Do not expect love in return; but if it does not, be content it has grown in yours. Do not rely on one's appearance; it can trick you. Do not rely on wealth; even that fades away. Rely on someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.\nThere are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do. \nThe brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You cannot go on well in life until you let your past failures and heartaches go off. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. The happiest of people do not necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness waits for those who cry, those appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.\nWhen you were born , you were crying and everyone around you was smiling . Live your life so that when you die , you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying .\n\n<question>:\nIn this passage, the writer wants to tell us_.\n\n<options>:\nA what to do in our life\nB where to go with other persons\nC how to treat our life\nD how to get on well with other persons\n\n<answer>:\n",
"assistant": "C"
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